Ewan Pearson puts Jesse Ware on the top spot.
1 (8) JESSE WARE – NO TO LOVE (THE REMIXES) – PMR / ISLAND
Ewan Pearson is up first at the mixing desk, delivering a couple of deep steamy neon numbers, packed with analogue synths and oozing sassy slo-mo hipness to die for. George Fitzgerald pumps it up in a powerful old school soulful house vein, and Todd Edwards adds jazzy elements and psychedelic washes over skipping garage rhythms. http://youtu.be/lmdCheC75nk
2 (3) MOJO FILTER / VARIOUS ARTISTS – VINTAGE EDITS VOL.2 –
AOR DISCO
Highlights include low slung grooves with atmospheric blasts shooting through Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ Red Right Hand. A slo-mo cosmic take on Michael Andrews & Gary Jules’ cover of Mad World, and housey doings on Dionne Warwick’s Walk On By. May your Strawberry Fields be wonky Forever. http://youtu.be/TS9ioGwe73w
3 (2) PARA ONE – WHEN THE NIGHT FT. JAW – MARBLE / BECAUSE
Hot from the press in Paris comes an irresistible fat slab of funky modern electronic soul, with great vocals and adventurous nu disco twists. If this don’t make you move then you might as well give up. DVNO strips it back and delivers a sassy electro remix, and Discodeine takes it on a peaking house route. Massive. http://youtu.be/HeSgvHKMpUE
4 (4) PADDED CELL – GUARDIANS OF THE NIGHT – DIFFERENT
Richard Sen & Neil Higgins make a welcome return with their first single for a few years. It’s a New York post punk disco influenced number with up to the minute trimmings, and vocals from Free Disco alongside a percussionist, guitarist, sax player and live bass, coming together on a proper old school groove. Deviancy Amp on the flip fuses raw synth stabs and funky percussion for a packed dance floor. http://youtu.be/S5uPZn4WLcI
5 (17) PANAMA – IT’S NOT OVER – FUTURE CLASSIC
On the original mix rolling toms drive sublime vocals and melancholic melodies, giving it a moody and distant feel. Kompakt’s Kolsch gives it some oomph with plenty of squelch, Ejeca go for subtle rave-isms plus a scream up piano, and Dave DK brings a certain quality deepness to the song. http://youtu.be/YMKZIaIN7O4
6 (NEW) CRAZY P – HEARTBREAKER REMIXES – 2020 VISION
From the LP When We On in all its soulful glory, working vocals that doff a cap to Womack & Womack, riding deep and classy house. Meanwhile Mark E puts it in a druggy pulsing hypnotic state, and Huxley gets funky and slightly spaced. http://youtu.be/TNYJb5mtioQ
7 (10) DJANGO DJANGO – LIFE’S A BEACH – BECAUSE
Another great feel good psychedelic single lifted from one of the debut LP’s of the year. When they first started grabbing the headlines their was quite a lot of comparisons to The Beta Band, and here Steve Mason turns up on remix duties, delivering a nice dubby version with shuffling rhythms and anthemic brass. The Very Best bring proceedings to an atmospheric spaced out finale which builds to epic proportions. http://youtu.be/57jgxPtfddE
8 (11) FLOPPY SOUNDS – THOSE VOICES – WAVE MUSIC
Rob Rives makes a startling return in his Floppy Sounds guise, reunited with vocalist Devon Dunaway for a paranoid schizophrenic tale about voices that won’t go away, over powerful rhythms that have got a certain 90’s Sound Factory feel. It comes with a very useful acapella.
9 (NEW) SWISS LIPS – DANZ (REMIXES) – EPIC
Tom Furse of The Horrors fame serves up an out there slo-mo mix with dramatic chords and flitting distant twiddly bits which give your drugs that added extra sparkle. Autokratz goes big and shiny club pop, and Jimmy Edgar brings up the rear with some deep electro house. http://youtu.be/w6v_w_soj2M
10 (16) TIGER STRIPES / MY FAVORITE ROBOT – OUT OF PHASE / SHOUT –
MY FAVORITE ROBOT
Tiger Stripes bring in singer Pete Fij from Creation Records shoegazing outfit Adorable, who delivers an excellent performance over classic melancholic synths, atmospheric pads and deep rhythms. Flipped with the My Favorite Robot bosses & Silky doing a moody and techy version of the Tears For Fears 1984 hit Shout. Another quality split artist single. http://youtu.be/gmIVU02oM5s
11 (13) THE OTHER TRIBE – SING WITH YOUR FEET – RELENTLESS
Bristol six piece with a fat slab of percussive house infused pop that’s pretty much guaranteed to put a spring in your step. http://youtu.be/RrkTOiY9k_4
12 (NEW) VALERIE JUNE – YOU CAN’T BE TOLD – SUNDAY BEST
From Memphis, Tennessee, combining soulful blues, gritty realism, fat dreadlocks and looking gorgeous. This lady is definitely going places.
13 (23) OLI FURNESS FT. ELISE – IF I WAS EP – SAY AHH!
Elise’s velvety soulful vocals work their way around intricate house rhythms with familiar sounding analogue synth riffs, mixing back in the day influences with forward thinking technique. Oli’s Old Skool Remix does what it says on the tin, adding scream up piano and tension building synths. Mikki Funk serves up a Deep Dub with jazzy Rhodes flourishes, and Agore delivers a skippy Dark Garage Dub.
14 (22) NEIL QUIGLEY & TONE FLOAT FT. CARI GOLDEN – DWTD – HIGHWAY
Deep house with familiar key stabs, pulsing subtleties and swirling poltergeist vocals, making a Deal With The Devil. The Timewriter cranks it up adding spring loaded tension, and Da Lukas gives it a nice warm top riff with a spacious widescreen feel. Spooks in space. http://youtu.be/HBPFNbT9WZU
15 (NEW) ROOTS MANUVA – BANANA SKANK EP – BIG DADA
Two brand new stripped back cool and deadly cuts from the UK’s leading hip hop maestro, alongside a WAFA Remix and a Part 2 of the title track. Impressive stuff. http://youtu.be/24BZoaHIywE http://youtu.be/hLSHJxUk-rY
16 (NEW) INDIANS – SOMEWHERE ELSE – 4AD
Indians is the brainchild of Soren Lokke Juul from Copenhagen, a very determined and creative individual, who has managed to capture that Scandinavian film noir cool, and mixed it with just the right amount of colourful American influenced psychedelics, creating a wide eyed winter wonderland with a difference. Imagine Mercury Rev and MGMT taking a trip across glacial fuelled fjords under twinkling night skies. http://youtu.be/338hl_lOuOE http://youtu.be/XbB_sE3knvI
17 (29) FOOTPRINTZ – THE FAVOURITE GAME – VISIONQUEST
Noir tinged synth pop with a certain air of mystery, subtle hooks, whispered vocals and a knowing sophistication with an under the counter feel. Ivan Smagghe gives it a woozy on poppers sleazy backroom workout, and Ryan Crosson & Lee Curtis house it up. http://youtu.be/tNFYS1JY6z4
18 (21) DELS – BLACK SALAD EP – BIG DADA
Much lauded MC Kieren Dickins gives us a five track taster of what’s to come in 2013. Main cut Bird Milk featuring singer Bila is spun out, paranoid, fucked up and on a sort of a dark Toon Town vibe, with grainy low slung bass, working its way around a classic horror film soundtrack and a loose version of the main riff from The Animals’ House Of The Rising Sun. And that’s just for starters. http://youtu.be/pKWiXLaRBMA
19 (17) STUBBORN HEART – STARTING BLOCK – ONE LITTLE INDIAN
An out there slice of futuristic blue eyed soul lifted from their critically acclaimed eponymous debut LP. The 128 Yard Dash Remix compliments the song beautifully with a percolating groove of skipping percussion and deep disco bass, and the Something New Remix goes on a dark and fizzing slo-mo chunkathon. http://youtu.be/3RlbcQOPgis
20 (14) BEHLING & SIMPSON – CLOSER EP – 2020 MIDNIGHT VISIONS
Three choice tracks that are cutting it from top duo on the Bristol scene. The title track features Shanti Celeste (great name) doing a breathy mesmerising vocal, over swinging crunchy house rhythms, infectious key riffs and a railroad train bell. Fuse Strategy features James Fox injecting a modern soulful R’n’B feel, offset with spaced out jazz funk keys. The closing U Were All Mine keeps the soulful flavours flowing in a chiming blissful state on an organic percussive groove. Nice.
21 (12) VARIOUS ARTISTS – JUST MUSIC CAFÉ VOL 4: THE AMBIENT ZONE – JUST MUSIC
Opening with the excellent Marconi Union’s Weightless, a stunning piece of aural bliss available on CD for the very first time. Other highlights among the rarities, exclusives and unearthed gems include Sense from Digitonal, new signings Op. treat us to Prelude, and Echaskech deliver Little Rays. Float on. http://youtu.be/NMmMNyTwePY
22 (27) NATALIE DUNCAN – REMIX EP – VERVE / DECCA
Nottingham’s brightest new star gets some dazzling remix treatment. The Crooked Man comes up trumps with The Crooked Home, a mesmerising gentle swirling dust storm, feathered with distant reverberating tribal rhythms and powerful voodoo trance vocals, taking you somewhere you’ve never been before.
23 (25) TYTHE – TOTEM POLES / LET THE DANCE END – SUNDAY BEST
A double headed slab of gently strummed melodic Balearic bliss with just the right amount of driving 4/4 beats. http://youtu.be/NL_XGRunkl4
24 (24) MILTON JACKSON – LESSONS LEARNED EP – BLACK KEY
Chunky drums and skipping percussion push atmospheric spooky fairground sounds into a spirit lifting feel good number on the opening See The Light. Old school keys and vocal loops weave around deep rhythms on the following 5 Cities, which also comes with a tougher Andy Ash Remix.
25 (NEW) JORI HULKKONEN AS THIRD CULTURE – NEGATIVE TIME REMIXES 1 – MY FAVORITE ROBOT
The Finnish producer’s latest LP gets a selective overhaul. Phonogenic, Fairmont, Kasper Bjorke, Of Norway and Sync Mode make the party go with a swing.
26 (26) CHERIE LEE – LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME THE REMIXES – DANSE CLUB
The original released in 1995 on Music Station now goes for stupid money on Discogs, Ebay etc. So those rather Smart brothers at Danse Club have picked it up to launch their Gold Series with. It’s the first of many long lost gems that will be getting hot remix treatment from some of today’s bright young things. Berlin’s Oliver $ leads the charge. http://youtu.be/WACBf7zMw_o
27 (30) DI’ZAIN – PLAY THE GAME (RYAN HEMSWORTH REMIX) – BTU
Lush electronic soul that swishes around and percolates on shuffling rhythms wrapped in deep velvety bass. http://youtu.be/z1ox0AIfPQw
28 (NEW) ALEX DINGLEY – CATS EYES – TOO PURE SINGLES CLUB
A lovely cute, ramshackled and fitting number for the final instalment of what has been a bumper year for TPSC. Oh and it comes on chunky yellow vinyl. Roll on 2013.
29 (NEW) UNOMAS – GOT TO BE FUNKY – NOVOTEK RAW SERIES
Intricate and warm house grooves with great word play. The Rules on the flip features a slightly jazzy, sensuous and smoky female vocal. Nice. http://youtu.be/gzoOHIkZ76A
30 (28) TWO FINGERS – VENGEANCE RHYTHM – BIG DADA
Amon Tobin continues his two fingered assault with long lasting damage, as sickening beats batter your grey matter into useless mush. http://youtu.be/TN1BN4keamc
To get your track submitted for consideration please contact Dean Thatcher at deanthatcher25@hotmail.com Vinyl & CD’s much preferred it makes compiling a lot easier.
